Official Announcement! Xi Jinping Suddenly Arrests Former Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan, Who Had Already Retired.
This episode mainly reports and confirms the news that former Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan has been officially announced by the Chinese Communist Party authorities to have been arrested. Anchor Hu Liren analyzes Huang Qifan's background, pointing out his long career in the officialdom of Shanghai and Chongqing, involving several generations of political factions, and discusses Xi Jinping's ongoing purge and asset seizure targeting veteran party officials and figures in the financial sector.
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Well, good morning everyone. I'm doing a show for you early this morning. Just yesterday we were talking about the rumors regarding the arrest of Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan, and today it has been confirmed. The Chinese Communist Party has officially announced the arrest of Huang Qifan, and this person is...
Um, we were doing a show yesterday talking about how Xi Jinping wants to target those veteran officials who have been involved across several generations. The longer your tenure is, the longer you stay inside the Communist Party, the more determined he is to arrest you. It's actually very simple: your tentacles run too deep, and you know too many people. Once you flip the script, Huang Qifan is actually a very important figure.
Look, he is from Shanghai, originally from the Shanghai Coking Plant. I have a friend who used to work at that coking plant, the old coking plant in Wujing. I've been to the coking plant before, and I knew the leaders inside. Back then, when we were having dinner with some friends who worked at the coking plant, Huang Qifan was mentioned. He was working at the coking plant back around the 1960s. Moreover, people from the coking plant once told me that this person came from a family with a background.
He came from a background, and his background at the time was not just an ordinary background; it was a Cultural Revolution background. During the entire Cultural Revolution, his relatives held official positions within the Communist Party. So how did he end up leaving the coking plant later on? It was still in the late stages of the Cultural Revolution when he was sent to—back then there was still no gaokao, it was the so-called worker-peasant-soldier student system—he was sent to study as a worker-peasant-soldier student.
So, what about this point? At that time, a coking plant was a very large, a very large enterprise. He was sent to what was called the Mechanical Institute? It seems it was called the Mechanical Institute, located on Fuxing Road in Shanghai, to study. There was a famous person at that time, it was a big deal, all these people had government connections, so he was sent in. After he got in to study, and then after he graduated as a worker-peasant-soldier student, it was a big deal, truly remarkable. At that time, because university students were very, very rare, the old university students had all been wiped out, during the Cultural Revolution, they were all wiped out.
At that time, you had to be relatively 'red'. Wang Qishan, later in the 1980s when the Pudong opening-up started, he went to Pudong. He also spent some time training in the Xuhui District government, it seems. I had a friend who was in the Xuhui District government at the time and met him; everyone was very young back then. Later, he went to...
He went to Pudong, worked in Pudong, and later became the Secretary-General or Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, and just like that, his career took off. Look at what he was involved in, look at the 1980s, he was with Jiang Zemin later, right? After Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji came to power, he started to rise rapidly, and then where was he sent? He was sent to Chongqing, to wade into the muddy waters of Chongqing.
After that, he stayed in Chongqing, stayed in Chongqing the whole time. I estimate that at the time, Huang Qifan, during the Bo Xilai incident, might have made some contributions. Ah, he and Bo Xilai, you see, they seemed to work together, right? Actually, not necessarily, they might not have been on the same path, not on the same path. Then later, uh, this, uh.
After Bo Xilai was arrested, he seemed to be fine, as if nothing happened. That proves that this person might not have been on the same path as Bo Xilai. Perhaps even during the period of Bo Xilai's arrest, he might have made some contributions. Look at these people inside the CCP, in the end, this Huang Qifan, can you say he is clean? No one inside the CCP is clean. I said later, when they started doing internet finance, he was involved in that sector.
If you, I don't know if you have ever been to the, uh, this Alibaba's Alipay or these online micro-loan companies, if you have ever taken out a loan, you would know. Their loan companies are all what? They are all from Chongqing, they are all based there, many of the registered addresses are there. At that time, many internet companies found it very difficult to obtain financial licenses, very difficult. At that time.
He was quite bold, Huang Qifan might have been quite bold. At that time, he issued some licenses in Chongqing, which were actually just leased to others, just leased to others. This CCP license, they say they give it to you, but when they want to take it back, they just take it back. But he was quite bold, he leased these financial licenses to many, he was doing this internet finance specialty, that is.
At the time, it should be said, it should be said, he had political achievements. Huang Qifan should be said to have had political achievements. He, look, he worked in Shanghai throughout the 1980s, the opening-up of Pudong in Shanghai, later the reform and opening-up of Shanghai, he seems to have gone after 2000, it seems he went after 2000.
He went to Chongqing, went to Chongqing after 2000, 2001, 2001 he went to Chongqing, ah, after arriving in Chongqing, he worked in Chongqing, he worked in Chongqing for about ten years or so, almost ten years or so. Hey, I looked at his resume, he went in 2001, 2001.
Ah! 2010, he went there in 2002, 2001, he went in 2001, and worked there for a full ten-plus years, over ten years. In 2021, 2011, later he stepped down. After stepping down, he did... well, he didn't step down, he was at the municipal government, Mayor of Chongqing, Party Secretary. That was over ten years.
Over ten years, later he never left Chongqing, and then later, he probably retired. He retired, he has already retired. So, you see, these people, Xi Jinping will not let them go. Now Xi Jinping, look at Huang Qifan, he is just one case. In a while, there will be many people, these old officials will be arrested, these people, they are involved in too many things of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), involving several generations, several waves of people. One, you see, he was involved in one is.
Jiang Zemin, the era of Jiang Zemin, right? He was in Shanghai, he didn't leave until after 2000 during the Jiang Zemin era, right? So the whole period, roughly from the 1980s to 2000, actually the whole of Shanghai was controlled by Jiang Zemin. Later, he went to Chongqing, and after going to Chongqing, then I think this period of time should be.
Bo Xilai was arrested during the era of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. So I think he wasn't arrested, he should have had a pretty good relationship with Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, it should have been a pretty good relationship. And at that time, the Chongqing Party Secretary was arrested, when Bo Xilai was arrested, at that time, he was not implicated.
It is very likely that when Bo Xilai was arrested, he had performed meritorious service, he had performed meritorious service, but he still couldn't escape. Look, after Bo Xilai was taken down, he stayed in Chongqing, and in Chongqing, he kept getting promoted, right? He started as Deputy Mayor of Chongqing, then became Mayor, then Party Secretary, reaching such a position, right? So within the CCP, you cannot stay for too long, the longer you stay, the greater the possibility of you being arrested.
Ah! The current situation, I said yesterday, is like the Mao era, the Cultural Revolution era. Ah, so I made a program last year saying that the second Cultural Revolution is coming. The CCP officials involved in the second Cultural Revolution are almost all officials. Even if you might see that this person has not been arrested, and might look like they landed safely in the end, these people have already been stripped of their family fortunes.
Ah, they have also been investigated. After the investigation, it's actually very simple, one is to send you directly to prison. People like this know too much, they are involved in too many things, so they are sent directly to prison. Often, those who have been officially announced have already been sent to prison, and those who have not been officially announced are told to surrender their assets and they will be spared, that is, you take out your assets, and after taking them out.
Give them to Xi Jinping's family, that's how it is, right? Now you see, the CCP is like this, it calls it state-owned assets, but state-owned assets are actually party assets, and party assets are the family property of the CCP. Huang Qifan, being arrested this time, it is also possible that it involves the financial sector, this area of finance, because it involves internet finance, the risk is very high. Look at China's financial sector, the arrests are too severe. I have something, I have a document.
Let me read it to everyone, this whole financial group, later it became. Look, finance.
Look at these people from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), who were arrested? Yi Huiman, Fang Xinghai, Wang Jianjun, Yao Gang, Wang Yi, Wang Huizhong, right? Zhu Chongjiu, Tong Daochi, Zhang Yuxin, Yao Qian, Li Liang. Some people, maybe everyone hasn't heard of them, hasn't heard of them at all. These were all former department heads of the CSRC, former bureau chiefs. Like Yao Gang of the CSRC, he was a vice chairman, Wang Yi was a vice chairman, right? Wang Huiming was the head of the Discipline Inspection Commission, ah, Fang Xinghai is very famous, this person is a vice chairman, right? He was originally from the Shanghai Stock Exchange, it seems he was a deputy general manager, I think.
Ah, Wang Jianjun, the former Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) or was he the former Chairman of the CSRC? Right? These people, ah, so inside the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), you must never get mixed up in it. The longer you stay mixed up, the more you become like these people. What we will see in the future is that throughout this purge process by Xi Jinping, those veteran officials have almost all met with misfortune, without exception, not a single one spared. Ah, suppose the overseas family assets of these veteran officials—these assets will be handed over in the future.
They will all be confiscated, and the confiscated assets will become the assets of the Xi family. Don't think that once they are confiscated they become state-owned assets, because if you think that, you are wrong. Inside the CCP, it is simply everyone robbing everyone else. When I come to power, I rob you; when you come to power, or someone else comes to power. Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping's money will not be safe in the future either. The only possibility it might be saved is if he establishes a Xi family dynasty. If he does not establish a Xi family dynasty, his assets will likewise be completely plundered in the future.
Ah! No matter what, even if Xi Jinping's family members are overseas, they will still be prosecuted, they will still be purged, and there is simply no way they can escape. Just like now, Jiang Zemin's family assets overseas have almost all been looted, completely looted. Ah! You can do any industry you want, but never plunge headfirst into this den of devils of the CCP. The CCP is a den of devils, ah!